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Direct linkBrittany Pinkerton; Stacie K. Pettit – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
To foster positive youth development (PYD), sport organizations, programs, coaches, and program leaders should use holistic youth development in a pro-social manner and provide a nurturing climate. This article offers an idea for a tangible way to promote PYD in sport and physical activity settings via a patch system.
Descriptors: Athletics, Adolescent Development, Children, Adolescents
Cynthia L. Cameron – British Journal of Religious Education, 2025
Good religious education needs to be rooted in a robust theological anthropology. The Roman Catholic Church's gender complementarity approach is inadequate for accompanying adolescents in Catholic schools as they engage in questions of gender and sexuality; instead, educators need a theological anthropology oriented towards adolescent flourishing.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
Anne J. Maheux; Shedrick L. Garrett; Kara A. Fox; Nathan H. Field; Kaitlyn Burnell; Eva H. Telzer; Mitchell J. Prinstein – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Social gaming--online gameplay involving digital interactions with others--is a common form of social media use among adolescents. Research on this topic has neglected the social aspect of gaming and the potential role of social gaming in adolescent development. In this article, we define social gaming, drawing on interdisciplinary theories to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Games, Social Media, Play
Download full textMadden, Mary; Rood, Elizabeth; Buchanan, Josanne – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2022
Public media has the potential to play a powerful role in the media landscape for tweens and teens. With the By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences project, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center conducted focus group interviews with tweens and teens across the country in order to better understand how young people are engaging with…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Information Technology
Deutsch, Nancy L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
The prevailing cultural narrative about middle school is that those years are extremely difficult, and the best students can hope for is to endure them until finding relief in high school. Nancy Deutsch argues that these years are, in fact, a time of great potential if schools can abandon their stereotypes about young adolescents and create school…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Adolescents, Stereotypes
Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Kristin Conradi Smith; Bong Gee Jang; Tori J. Ostot – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
An issue devoted to foundational skills and adolescents might center the cognitive skills and practices most needed to accelerate learning. While an understanding of these--whether multisyllabic decoding, fostering comprehension through discussion, or argumentative writing--is important, in this article, we advocate for the importance of attending…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adolescents, Motivation, Literacy
Charlyn Harper Browne – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2024
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) developed the "Strengthening Families Approach and Protective Factors Framework" (SF) and the "Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework" (YT) in response to an urgent need in the fields of child maltreatment prevention and youth services to shift from a primary…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Child Welfare, Child Development
David Smahel; Hayriye Gulec; Adela Lokajova; Lenka Dedkova; Hana Machackova – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become commonplace in adolescents' lives, and they have grown in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic, when online communication became standard for many parts of life. This brings the need for developmental psychology to revise and update its theories for these new societal challenges. It…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Information Technology, Telecommunications
Madden, Mary; Rood, Elizabeth – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2022
This brief is the first of a series of applied research briefs that focus on specific challenges and opportunities public media faces in its approaches to youth content and engagement. Drawing from priorities surfaced through focus group interviews with youth across the country, these briefs highlight recent research and public discussions about…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Cooperation, Adults, Design
Cavanagh, Caitlin – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Adolescents are developmentally distinct from adults in ways that merit a tailored response to juvenile crime. Normative adolescent brain development is associated with increases in risk taking, which may include criminal behavior. Juvenile delinquency peaks during the adolescent years and declines in concert with psychosocial maturation. However,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency
Amy Lang – Afterschool Matters, 2024
In light of the proven benefits of high-quality afterschool STEM programming for teens, the author worked with colleagues at University of Maryland Extension to institute the Pollinator Ambassador program. The program was launched through a county-based 4-H program at a partner site in a community outside Washington, DC. Following the 4-H Thriving…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Entomology, Partnerships in Education
Alfred W. Tatum – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
I discuss the complementary strengths of foundational literacy skills and foundational texts to support the academic and life journeys of Black adolescent males in this commentary. Foundational texts are defined as texts central to life-outcome, personal, intellectual, and professional trajectories accompanied by self-assurance while being…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adolescents, Males, Literacy
Amy Stornaiuolo; Clara Abbott; Kathy Walsh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This discussion introduces a heuristic to guide writing instruction with adolescents and young adults. Our framework, called "Open World Writing," consists of six writing territories (vision, material, design, voice, flow, polish) that provide focus and clarity for writing and educators working across academic and creative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Heuristics, Adolescents
Ojala, Maria – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Climate change is an existential threat facing humanity on a global scale. To handle this problem, all societal actors, including young people, need to get involved. This narrative review focuses on what implications climate change has for research in developmental psychology. It is argued that how young people relate to climate change is closely…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Young Adults, Climate
